#趣谈八卦 #
There are no ugly women in the world, only lazy women. ”
This phrase, which has been on the lips of many people, comes from the mouth of beautician Helena Rubenstein.
When it comes to Lü Yan, everyone may not be familiar with this name.
But I believe everyone has seen a picture of a woman with freckles on her face.
The person in the photo is Lu Yan.
Unlike traditional beauties, Lü Yan has single eyelids, small eyes, a collapsed nose bridge, thick lips, and a short chin.
At that time, some people joked that all the elements that had nothing to do with beauty appeared on Lu Yan's face.
However, it is such a being like the "ugly duckling" who becomes a model and mixes in the modeling circle of "eating by the face".
From the first time she appeared in the audience's sight, Lu Yan was controversial.
Some people say that she is ugly, calling her "China's first ugly model", "China's ugliest model" and so on.
Some people praised her beauty and said that she had a unique aura on her.
In the face of controversy, Lü Yan, with her own efforts, stepped onto the international stage step by step, became an international supermodel, and married a French nobleman at the age of 29.
Her life experience is legendary.
02
In 1981, Lü Yan was born in a poor mountain village in Jiangxi.
She is the eldest in the family, with a younger brother and sister below.
At that time, the family's financial resources mainly came from my father working in a barber shop, and his life was very poor.
But compared to the trouble that poverty brought to Lu Yan, her own appearance bothered her even more.
Every time Lu Yan went out, she would receive a lot of strange eyes, as if a voice was saying, "How can there be such an ugly girl in the world?"
Even if it was a polite remark from relatives and friends, Lu Yan had never heard others praise her beautifully.
In this way, Lu Yan began to become inferior and tried to hide herself.
After entering middle school, she encountered another problem - height.
The height of 1 meter 78 makes Lu Yan look unique in the crowd.
In order not to attract attention, she deliberately used a hunchback to hide her differences.
Over time, she really became a typical bad posture.
At the age of 18, Lu Yan was not admitted to college.
How to go forward has become a problem that she has to face at the moment.
She began to think about what advantages she had, and after much deliberation, she felt that her greatest advantage was height.
With the support of her family, Lu Yan simply signed up for a ballet class to correct her body
At that time, she did not know that this choice would change her destiny.
Fate is so wonderful, next door to the ballet class is a modeling class, she is only a wall away from the model.
She knows that she is not good looking, and being a model is a luxury dream that is out of reach.
But fate fell on this girl.
Once, the teacher took the students of the modeling class to Beijing to participate in a modeling competition.
Originally, 5 girls were scheduled to participate, and one girl quit due to illness and took leave.
The tall Lu Yan became the "lucky one" of the substitutes.
This chance opened the door of the model for Lu Yan.
During the trip to Beijing, Lu Yan met the first noble person in her life.
This person is Li Dongtian, the top stylist in the model group.
"This girl looks very special, has a very high degree of recognition, and can make people unforgettable."
This was Li Dongtian's first impression of Lü Yan.
And Li Dongtian's accidental glimpse changed Lü Yan's life.
Relying on his keen sense of smell for the fashion circle, Li Dongtian invited Lu Yan to be the image spokesperson of his company.
Subsequently, Li Dongtian tailored a set of photos of "freckles and lilies" for her, which hung in the most prosperous commercial area of Beijing.
At that time, many people questioned her appearance, and some even saw it as an advertisement for the treatment of freckles.
In short, the appearance of Lu Yan shocked the entire fashion circle.
Because, she is too ugly, completely inconsistent with the aesthetic of the moment.
Lu Yan, who has just debuted, has encountered a bottleneck period in her career.
Where does the future go, is it to continue to return to your hometown as a transparent person, or to do your best in the modeling circle?
Lü Yan chose the latter.
03
Debuting as "ugly" and breaking the inherent aesthetics of the fashion circle, Lu Yan's model road is destined to be difficult and dangerous.
At first, the people in my hometown heard that she was working as a model in Beijing and were ashamed of her.
The self-confidence that was hard to build up was polished off.
Driven by inferiority complex, Lu Yanwan refused the invitation of a well-known modeling company in China.
However, this refusal led to her being banned from the domestic modeling circle.
The multiple blows made Lu Yan have a clearer understanding of herself: she must find someone who really knows how to appreciate herself.
So, she went alone to Paris, France, known as the "fashion capital", to seek a way out.
With limited funds and a language barrier, Lu Yan made up English every day in a room of only 9 square meters.
To save money and stay in shape, she ate hard-boiled eggs for months.
In the first few months of arriving in Paris, Lu Yan interviewed everywhere, not missing any opportunity, and running on the road for 12 hours a day.
But the results were not satisfactory, and she received a lot of rejections and blank eyes.
"If even you give up on yourself, who will appreciate you?"
Lu Yan, who was walking on the streets of a foreign land, comforted herself in this way.
Those who persist in their efforts will eventually receive God's favor.
Lu Yan finally waited for an opportunity.
That winter, the cold wind in Paris was so cold that no model wanted to wear a summer dress to the stage.
Except for Lu Yan.
She endured the bitter cold and stepped on the catwalk steadily with one foot and one foot.
At this time, she was like a hot red rose, blooming gorgeously on the stage.
With this hard work, Lu Yan won the favor of the world-famous fashion magazine "VOGUE".
Lu Yan, who appeared in the fashion magazine, became famous for a while, and invitations came pouring in.
In 2000, the World Top Model Competition was held in China.
After some struggle, she plucked up the courage to return to China to participate.
"I represent the beauty of Asia, and it's time to break down Western aesthetics."
On the stage, she held up her criticized ugly face, and her incomparable confidence and powerful aura infected everyone.
After a month of fierce competition, Lü Yan won the second place in one fell swoop.
This is the highest award won by the Chinese in the International Top Model Competition to date.
This answer also tells everyone that aesthetics are no longer monolithic.
Lu Yan took a big step in her life.
After that, Lu Yan became a hot rising star in the modeling circle.
International accolades followed, and countless halos surrounded her.
While her career was booming, Lü Yan met her true love, a French aristocrat.
The first time they met, he said to Lu Yan, "You are the most beautiful Chinese I have ever seen."
It was the first person in her life to tell her she was beautiful.
Lü Yan took the initiative to attack and launched a pursuit of him.
In the end, the two came together and lived a happy life, and had a cute and beautiful mixed-race son.
The "ugly duckling" eventually became the "white swan".
04
Lu Yan once said a sentence:
"Not everyone has the opportunity to 'look pretty,' but everyone has the opportunity to 'live beautifully.'"
She was defined as an "ugly model" at the beginning of her debut, and she has been breaking through the established framework of the world and trying to get out of the aesthetics of others in the first half of her life.
It turns out that confidence is more important than a beautiful skin bag.
Beauty in the bone is not in the skin.
In the second half of her life, Lu Yan devoted herself to defining the beauty in her eyes.
Thirty years later, she transformed into a fashion designer and founded a personal brand, which was well received.
From having nothing to being the winner of her life now, Lu Yan played a bad deck of cards in her hand out of Wang Fried.
And Lu Yan's experience also tells everyone that a pair of skin bags cannot determine fate.
With enough effort, the "ugly duckling" will eventually become a "white swan".
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